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Mal'uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress

Mal'uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress

Migliore, Sam

Paperback

Series: Anthropological Horizons

Religion General AnthropologyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0802079229
ISBN13: 9780802079220
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jun 14 1997
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Researchers have attempted to identify and explain this essentially ambiguous and variable phenomenon from a number of perspectives - as a culture-bound syndrome, an idiom of distress, a mechanism of social control, and a representation of psychobiological fear. In Mal'uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress, Sam Migliore shifts the focus of discussion from paradigms to a practical examination of how people use the notion of the evil eye in a variety of sociocultural contexts, particularly in various aspects of Sicilian-Canadian culture and experience.

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